Maria Is an Engineer for Blustery Breezes, a Small Manufacturer

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Maria is an engineer for Blustery Breezes, a small manufacturer of wind turbines. Recently, a larger company, PowerMen Electric, has shown interest in investing in this small operation. This is not surprising since firms that are creating products for alternative sources of energy are attracting the attention of governments and other businesses.

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Definitions:

Null Hypothesis

A hypothesis that assumes no significant difference or effect, serving as a default assumption to be tested against experimental data.

Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test

A non-parametric statistical hypothesis test used to compare two related samples, matched samples, or repeated measurements on a single sample to assess whether their population mean ranks differ.

Test Statistic

In hypothesis testing, the test statistic is a standardized value derived from sample data, used to make a decision about the null hypothesis.

SPSS Output

The results generated by the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences, including statistical tests, tables, and graphs, after data analysis.